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The '''Object Description Schema''' (MODS) is an [[Extensible Markup Language|XML]]-based bibliographic description schema developed by the [[United States]] [[Library of Congress]]' Network Development and Standards Office. MODS was designed as a compromise between the complexity of the [[MARC standards|MARC]] format used by libraries and the extreme simplicity of [[Dublin Core]] metadata.

==History and development==

MODS was first announced for trial use in June, 2002. InAs 2006of August 2010 it is at version 3, which has itself received minor revisions.4.

The number of users of MODS is unknown. Implementers are encouraged to register their uses of MODS in the implementation registry on the official MODS website. To date there are about two dozen30 projects listed in the registry, although it is assumed that many others are making use of the standard. Users are primarily operating in the area of digital libraries, and some of the registered uses are in digital library projects at the Library of Congress.

Revisions to the schema are suggested and discussed on the MODS listserv, and implemented by the Library of Congress. There is no formal standards body nor board involved in the MODS schema at this time.